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Hi fellow scripters - I had to laugh when I saw the "History of Programming" segment where Matt showed a punch card programming machine.

THAT is how I learned to program in Fortran IV - and that experience "Cured" me of programming. That was then, this is now. Looking forward to the group!

Mark Eidem CMT, CFA

Same here! Fortran IV was the only computer language I learned using punch cards. It wasn't that I had to use them. I CHOSE to use cards so that I could say "been there, done that"! Our mid-term assignment was to see how much money we would have if we started with a penny and doubled it every day for 30 days. Gosh that was fun! (The answer was $5,368,709.12) :-)

EECE Major C/O 2008 began with C++ and Java Net beans lol....I love it here...Mate makes me feel like comp prog class wasn't a waste at all! CHEERS!!!!

Same here, I programmed in FORTRAN and COBOL years ago using the punch cards. Have used SAS and SPSS more recently but I certainly need some refresher courses.